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Mane 6 - Referring to the show's main cast: Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Rarity. This term has become an Ascended Meme and now often used by showrunners and other marketing to speak of the show's characters.

Mane 7 - The Mane 6 + Spike.

The Other Mane 6 - The most popular background ponies: Derpy Hooves, Doctor Whooves, Bon-bon, Lyra, Vinyl Scratch, and Octavia.

It seems that if anypony makes a goofy face on the show, fans will pounce on it. Aside from Derpy Hooves and her Fish Eyes in the first episode, "Applebuck Season" brings us Rainbow Dash's gushing kissy-face (along with the accompanying phrase "So awesome!" and the emoticon "/)^3^(\") and Applejack's various loopy sleep-deprived faces, along with her look of disgust when she mishears the "wheat germ" part of Pinkie Pie's muffin recipe as "wheat worms", and "The Best Night Ever" brings "Flutterrage". The oft-usedscrunchy face expression is also quite popular.

As of Season 2, there has been an abundance of Uncanny Valley-ish expressions whenever a pony's head is looking directly at the camera. Colloquially known as the FAIC.

And now "Daring Don't" gives us Smugdash and a reworked Dashface

[X] IS BEST PONY explanation A common way of expressing one's favor for a particular character. The omission of the word "the" is intentional. However, often used when [X] isn't a pony at all (like Spike or Gilda), or is a character from a completely different work (like Magneto) which still isn't a pony.

"Silly anon, that's not how you spell 'Pinkie Pie!'" explanation Fans naming other ponies as their favorite character tend to attract image macros with this phrase, though there's at least one version where Pinkie admits Fluttershyis her favorite, too.

Minty liked socks before they were cool. explanation Minty is a G3 pony who collected socks.

"Congratulations, X! You're the new Y!" explanation A play on the original line "Congratulations, Spike! You're the new Rainbow Dash!" Examples include "Congratulations, Pinkie Pie! You're the new Scootaloo!" in response to Pinkie's chicken costume in "Luna Eclipsed" and "Congratulations, Twilight! You're the new Rarity!" in response to Apple Bloom giving Twilight's mane the same style as Rarity's in "The Cutie Pox".

CELESTIA, YOU MAGNIFICENT MARE!YOU READ MY LETTERS!explanation Celestia's Batman Gambit for snapping Twilight Sparkle out of Discord's spell was simply to send Twilight copies of all the letters she'd written to Celestia in season 1, about what she'd learned about friendship, knowing that even a mindscrewed Twilight Sparkle would not be able to resist the written word. The quote is a reference to Patton.

Good morning, [X]! explanation A series of pieces by this artist depicting various characters shortly after waking up. Other artists have since joined in on the theme.

"Lock it under a rock, I'm sure it won't get out." explanation Nightmare Moon and Discord, the two Big Bads of the series so far, were sealed in the moon and turned into a statue respectively, both by Celestia. Fan speculation for Celestia's reason for using essentially the same imprisonment strategy twice usually has someone suggest this was what she was thinking during both instances.

Many fans exaggerate this by making it her go-to solution for anything she doesn't like.

[PONY] found a [VEHICLE] explanation Looping animations of one or more characters driving a vehicle at high speed accompanied with a fitting background music. Usually also includes extra elements happening around them as they drive. It started with this one, which features Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy riding a TransAm down the side of a mountain. The car◊ they were driving and the background music (called "Yellow Line") are from an Anime movie called REDLINE. Many others have followed in its wake. (A collection can be found here.)

Colt versions. explanation Genderbends of the Mane Cast, usually created by lowering the pitch on the original voices. In this incarnation, their names become Butterscotch, Applejack, Elusive, Rainbow Blitz, Bubble Berry, and Dusk Shine (and his number one secretary, Barbara (Barb)). In case you're confused as to who's who, they are male versions of Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Twilight Sparkle, and the female version of Spike.

At least one Youtuber has taken it a step further, not only voice acting as the colts, but changing their dialog to be more male-specific (for example, Elusive designs suits instead of dresses and wants to find a princess rather than a prince charming). Think The Gender-Flip of Haruhi Suzumiya, only with ponies.

And this itself has spawned a VA project that seeks to voice the Genderswapped Mane Six to use as a live reading for the story "On a Cross and Arrow" which popularized the Male Cast. The casting call can be found here, the accepted voice list can be found here, a demo of the accepted voices can be heard here and the first episode here.

[X] Cannon/Bazooka/Launcher explanation An art trend of ponies wielding large shoulder mounted cannons/bazookas/launchers. Color scheme of the cannon and its ammunition depends on its wielder. Originated from one of a series of FiM themed weapons created by Flamingo 1986. One of which was called the "Pinkie Pie Launcher". Other artists later edited Pinkie Pie herself holding the launcher[1] and it soon spread to other characters as well.

Party Cannon. explanation Shown in the episode "Sweet and Elite" where Pinkie Pie shows it off as to explain how she can set up parties so quickly. Makes a return in "A Canterlot Wedding, Part 2".

Wet manes. explanation Fanart showing characters with their manes drenched and hanging down, inspired by a scene with Rarity in "Sisterhooves Social". One such fanart piece, of Silver Spoon as a grown mare, eventually went on to be used in Gameloft's My Little Pony game.

Fluffy ponies explanation A trending art meme where ponies are drawn with thicker and fluffier fur.

Fluffy pony drowns explanation Fanart on 4chan has inspired a flood of mini-fics about adorable but accident-prone pet fluffy ponies.

Fluffy pony abuse explanation Said image board has since spawned numerous mini-fics involving rather disturbingly detailed slaughter and mistreatment of fluffy ponies, usually in the form of Disproportionate Retribution for the afformentioned stupidity. The most common form of abuse is the "Sorry Stick", an impromptu spanking device made from a thin rod of wood.

Now, let it be known that such stories has caused a bit of Creator Backlash from Mixermike 662, the creator of Fluffle Puff and the man who popularized the Fluffy Ponies concept to begin with. And by "Creator Backlash", they caused him to disown the fandom.

Many of the fluffy pony abuse artists must have intentionally been drawing parallels to the development of yukkuris as a meme in Touhou fandom.

Fuzzy ponies explanation A "follow-up" of sort to fluffy ponies, the original post involved Hasbro Biotoys inventing a successor species - much more durable, obedient, and intellligent than the fluffies. While the original post seriously toted their superiority, most posts involving fuzzy ponies discuss how boring they are in comparison to fluffy ponies, and how badly they would fail.

Ponytails. explanation The manes of characters are made in a ponytail style. Possibly made simply because of how silly it looks when you think about it.

Ponies drinking milkshakes through a straw, ever since the episode One Bad Apple featured Sweetie Belle drinking one and looking rather adorable.

Zodiac/horoscope poniesexplaination The Hub posted a horoscope generator on its facebook with twelve original ponies representing the various signs of the horoscope. The fandom has fleshed all of them out further well beyond the original pictures.

Sliding poniesexplanation A series of simple animations of many of the characters sliding into a box (think Maru the Cat). Has expanded greatly with takeoffs of that.

Crotchboobs.explanation Horses in real life have nipples close to their groin. Fan artists have taken this into account.

>Implying.explanation With several episodes in season 3 introducing the motion of "air quotes", GIFs of these with the tag ">Implying" have been made. Fan versions have also come about, though typically based on one with Lyra, leading to ">Implyra" and variants.

"Boop!" / Booping explanation An old but still being practiced art trend where a pony is depicted being poked or tapped on the nose by another individual. Usually accompanied with the Written Sound Effect "boop". Booping with hands is usually done by using the index finger.

Pointy ponies.explanation Drawing the pony characters in a style similar to the reprise of "BBBFF" during "A Canterlot Wedding", which uses simple shapes and with the hooves/feet typically ending as simple points (hence the name). As they are much easier to draw and animate, they have become popular for various animations, including Friendship is Witchcraft and Double Rainboom.

Pegasus ponies preening explanation Fanart of pegasus ponies (and alicorns) cleaning and grooming their wings just like birds. They generally range between either cutesy or sensual, with the latter often depicting another character intimately helping them.

The Mane Cast

General

Mane 6 DENIED! explanation Episode 100 focused on background ponies trying their hardest to coordinate a wedding. The Mane six are seen galloping toward it near the end—and the door is shut and locked just as they reach it.

Twilight's speech in "Applebuck Season" getting interrupted inspired a lot of comparisons to Kanye West at the Video Music Awards. "Yo, Twilight, I'm really happy for you, and I'ma let you finish, but Applejack is the best pony of all time!"

Congratulations! Your Twilight has evolved into Rapidash!explanation This image◊ of an angry Twilight from "Feeling Pinkie Keen" draws comparisons to the Pokemon Rapidash◊.

Oh God, Twilight's about to miss a deadline! RUN! explanation During the Season 2 episode Lesson Zero, Twilight Sparkle being the organization freak she is, becomes increasingly unstable the further into the day she goes when a letter to Princess Celestia is due for sending. She eventually comes to the conclusion that if she can't find a friend's problem to fix as a friend, then she would have to create one. It doesn't end well.◊

The face she made immediately before also gave rise to a lot of exploitable images. Not that the episode isn't already full of weird faces otherwise.

Twilight Snapple / Twilight Psycho explanation In "Lesson Zero", Twilight begins to lose her grip on sanity, complete with creepy facial expressions, eventually coming to the point that it looks almost as if she's stalking the CMC.

My Little Pet Twilight Sparkle explanation A meme in a similar fashion to "Lyra wants hands" (See "Background Pony Memes"). It's about Twilight Sparkle wanting to be qualified as Rainbow Dash's pet. She's usually depicted with a leash to symbolize her "dedication". It came from a line in the episode "May the Best Pet Win" where Rainbow Dash explains to Twilight Sparkle why she can never be qualified to be her pet. Fan art examples so far: [2][3][4][5][6][7] and also some Ask Tumblrs (see "Ask Tumblrs" under "Website Specific Memes") referencing the meme: [8][9]

Twilight Benes. explanation Twilight's bizarre dancing in "Sweet and Elite" has prompted many references to Elaine's similar lack of anything resembling rhythm.

Twilightliciousexplanation Tara Strong puts out a vocal Twitter message, singing I'm T to the W-I-L-I-G-H-T/And ain't no other pony troll it down like me/I'm Twilightlicious! Cue the talented fandom...

The saga continues as Tara and her followers attempt to make "Twilightlicious" trending on Twitter.

Given the reactions (both ways) from her Twitters (typically, stating something along the lines of "Here's a picture of me naked", attached to a tasteful photo of one of the clothes-less characters she voices), Tara's even called out these acts as Twolling.

Recognition of Twilight Sparkle's voice actress in the video game Lollipop Chainsaw led to numerous people referencing her in Youtube comments and fanart such as this one depicting her as the main character.

Twilight is a murderer. explanation In the episode "Too Many Pinkie Pies", Twilight dispatches the Pinkie clones the moment they look away from a wall of paint. The fact that as the clones practically explode into magical energy, and she said there was a risk of the same thing happening to the original Pinkie, led to cries of people calling her a murderer or "committing Pinkiecide"..

Twilight's new form. explanation A two-panel exploitable taken from "Magical Mystery Cure" as the Mane Five react in shock for the first time to Twilight's new form. The second panel, in-show showing Twilight with her new wings, is altered to be everything from Rule 63 Twilight, Princess Big Macintosh, God from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Gabe Newell, and so on.

"Everything is going to be fine." explanation Following her change into an alicorn and subsequent coronation in "Magical Mystery Cure", Twilight says that "Everything is going to be fine". Given the Broken Base reaction to Alicorn Twilight, several have taken this phrase, typically with the image of Alicorn Twilight, onto photos of great diasters, like the Hindenberg, noting how (to them) the show is Tempting Fate.

Twilight cat/twicat explanation One user pointed out a scene in "Spike At Your Service" where Twilight seems to act like a cat thus leading to pictures of twilight acting like a cat and/or saying nya/meow.

Twiface explanation In one scene in "Swarm of the Century", Twilight puts on a smug grin while doing an Aside Glance, as seen here. This is often accompanied by the expression "You've come to the wrong neighborhood".

Twiscreamexplanation In one of the shots in the trailer for Equestria Girls, Twilight is seen having a Freak Out! about her new human form. The fanbase took notice of this and ran with it, and goddamn how they ran with it.

Twidayo explanation This is the name that has been given to the Japanese costume of Twilight Sparkle by the Japanese audience, which has been made fun of many times because of how creepy they thought it was.

Crashlight explanation The shot of Twilight failing to awkwardly pull out of a crash landing, landing face-first with the ground, from teasers for the first episode of Season 4.

"My cutie mark!"explanation In "Princess Twilight Sparkle, Part 2", Twilight makes this exclamation when she sees a six-pointed star symbol on the Tree of Harmony, even though the star is fairly generic-looking and its resemblance to Twilight's actual cutie mark is passing at best. This led to images of Twilight identifying any star-shaped object as her cutie mark.

NOT THE BOOKS!explanation During "Twilight's Kingdom", Twilight avoided confrontation with Tirek until he blew up the library, at which point she clearly grew angry and leapt into the fray firing a Kamehame Hadoken. Exclamations to the effect of "you hurt the books, it's on now!" are the typical reaction

I'M PANCAKE!!explanation In "Castle Sweet Castle", Twilight falls asleep at breakfast and lands face-first in a stack of pancakes. She wakes up with this Waking Non Sequitur, along with a pancake impaled on her horn. Art of Twilight and pancakes naturally became very common.

Punklight Sparkleexplanation Twilight with her new punk-like hairdo from "Castle Sweet Castle".

Twilight Starkleexplanation Because she said the magic words "Winter Is Coming" in "Tanks for the Memories".

Melania Trump copying Twilight Sparkle explanation On July 19, 2016, in response to allegations that Donald Trump's wife Melania had plagiarized portions of a speech by Michelle Obama during the 2016 Republican National Convention, his chief strategist compared quotes from other works that were vaguely similar to lines from the speech to argue that her speech used common ideas and was not necessarily copied from Obama's speech. One of them was a Twilight Sparkle quote from "Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?", "This is your dream, anything you can do in your dreams you can do now."), and not even in the right context (Melania was talking about dreams, Twilight was explaining that they were literally in a dream). Tara Strong was one of the first to point this out on Twitter. CNN even put a story on the front page, illustrated with fan art, of course.

Applejack

"Liarjack"explanation Applejack, being the Element of Honesty, almost never tells a lie. When corrupted by Discord in "The Return of Harmony", however, she constantly lies, while doing the linked face. Has spawned a lot of image macros; the captions usually border on Suspiciously Specific Denial.

Who's a Silly Pony?Who is, you is, Applejack!explanation Applejack is one of the rare characters in the series who comes from a previous series, in this case Generation 1 My Little Pony. G1 Applejack was a klutz to the extreme. In a UK My Little Pony audiobook, Applejack was introduced with this song to showcase her clumsy nature. Fans have since taken the song and attached it to scenes where Friendship Is Magic Applejack is being shown as acting weird.

In The Return Of Harmony: Part II, the shot of a smug Applejack bringing up Rarity's brief fling with "Tom" has been used by fans for various clever one-liners in image macros for different ways to one-up Rarity.

Followed up when the episode "Too many Pinkie Pies" featured Twilight Sparkle testing out an "Apple to Orange" spell, but always being interrupted and hitting something other than the apple. The inevitable result.

Applejack's Episode. explanation Applejack has had one feature episode since the beginning of the show, and a split ticket with a couple episodes, most commonly with Rarity. When the DVD The Friendship Express was revealed to contain an episode titled "The Last Roundup", the fans went nuts. When the episode's synopsis was released, revealing that Applejack was missing and the manes had to find her, the fans were less impressed. When the episode after was confirmed to be a truly Apple-Family-centric episode, the fans perked up again, and when Applejack actually appeared throughout all of The Last Roundup their ire disappeared completely.

And then the episode was remembered not for Applejack, but for Derpy appearing throughout the opener, and actually talking. At least the following episode mostly focused on AJ, though in the context of her family and, again, being partially upstaged by the characters of the week.

"Forget you, I can eat ALL these apples!" explanation At a panel at the January 2012 Bronycon, fans convinced guest speaker Ashleigh Ball (the voice of Applejack) to quote the fan animation APPLE.MOV

Appletroll explanation At the end of "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000", Applejack proudly proclaims that she did not learn anything from the episode in her letter to Celestia. Since that means she never had a reason to send a letter, this led to people claiming that she was trolling Celestia. Her smug "haters gonna hate" trot while narrating said letter, followed by presumably going out to get wasted on cider helps considerably.

Babyapple/Babyjack saying "Ah'm Applejack. More apple fwitter?" explanation The Season 3 episode "Apple Family Reunion" has a flashback scene of a baby Applejack saying this line in a ridiculously adorable way.

Applejack is the new Twilight Sparkle. explanation One viewer pointed out that, in season 3, Applejack is the only member of the Mane 6 to have a speaking role in every episode. Not even Twilight Sparkle has done so, leading to this meme. Given the fact that in season 2, Applejack had very little screen time and dialogue compared to the rest of the Mane 6, it was a remarkable turnaround.

The buck's a hand?! explanation During the song "What My Cutie Mark is Telling Me" in the season 3 finale, Applejack says the line, "Could y'all give me a hand here and help me fix this mess?" Fans caught on to the error and reacted expectedly.

Stupid Sexy Applejack explanation Applejack's fantasy sequences while working on the farm and modeling as Applejewel in "Simple Ways" appears to have invoked this.

Applebrow. explanation Season 4 includes two memorable instances of Applejack raising her eyebrow in response to another character's absurd claims.

Applejack cries on the inside.explanation During "Tanks for the Memories", as the others break down into shared tears, Pinkie Pie tells Twilight that she's crying because Twilight's not crying. Twilight asks about AJ, who remains stoic, and Pinkie says AJ is crying on the inside. Cue fandom theory on AJ's parents being long dead...

"Applejack is best background pony." explaination Applejack frequently comes out at the bottom of popularity polls among the fans. In fact, in consecutive editions of the Brony Herd Census, she wasn't even a member of the Mane Six (Luna, however, was.)

NOPONY BREAKS A PINKIE PROMISE!!!! explanation In "The Last Roundup", Applejack made a Pinkie Promise to explain everything during breakfast. When the Mane 5 discover she ran before breakfast, Pinkie takes it rather personally.

"And that's how Equestria was made!"explanation This is how Pinkie Pie ends her cutie mark story in "Cutie Mark Chronicles". While the Cutie Mark Crusaders brush it off as "Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie", fans have joked that somehow, someway, Pinkie Pie really is responsible for the creation/foundation of Equestria. Others just joke that Pinkie would end her rendition of the Equestrian Creation Myth with "...and that's how I got my cutie mark!"

Cupcakesexplanation An incredibly infamous, gore-riddled Fan Fic (someone on Equestria Daily compared it to Higurashi: When They Cry) that has wormed its way into a permanent spot in the collective fandom consciousness. Much like Warhammer 40,000 fans and Squad Broken, mentioning "cupcakes" without any context is likely to make some fans suffer horrible flashbacks.

Doomieexplanation In A Canterlot Wedding Part 2, Pinkie Pie asks a changeling to "Do me! Do me!" (and she's unimpressed with the impersonation that follows). This led to the changeling in question being nicknamed Doomie by the fandom, and inspired a series of four-panel comics where Doomie transforms into Pinkie, but not exactly the Pinkieshe'sthinkingof.

Workout Pinkie explanation Which is Pinkie in her aerobics outfit from "A Friend In Deed" is used on many random pictures and captions.

Housewife Pinkie explanation Which is Pinkie wearing an apron while she cleans up her kitchen in "Baby Cakes" is used in a similar fashion.

As well, soon carried to pretty much every mane and background character.

Pinkie's door reaction.explanation In the comic, issue #4, the ponies scatter to open various doors in a spooky castle. Pinkie happily trots up to a door, opens it and is shocked by being face-to-face with a giant eyeball, and then slowly closes it, followed by her reaction "That was a terrible surprise!". Cue exploitable.

Pinkie can't do stairs. explanation At one point in "Princess Twilight, Part 2", Pinkie Pie falls down a flight of stairs in typical Pinkie Pie manner.

Creamy creamy frosting explanation At one point in "Princess Twilight, Part 2", Pinkie Pie starts intensely daydreaming about "creamy creamy frosting" to the point of drooling slack-jawed.

Pinkie's ghost sister/Obsidian Pieexplanation Before being given a proper introduction in a later episode, the first appearance Pinkie's third sister Maud, on a picture during "Pinkie Pride", was considered a strange retcon by some, leading to the idea that she was a "ghost sister" that didn't appear in the CMC episode but in the picture. This subsequently led to 'shopping Maud (then given the fanon name Obsidian) into other scenes involving ghosts or similar events.

TO THE PARTY CAVE! explanation Party Pooped revealed that Pinkie has a secret cave, accessible by trapdoor slide, in which she stores notes for all her party plans. Comparisons to Batman were inevitable.

PONK explanation For whatever reason, it's common for online posters to intentionally misspell Pinkie Pie's name (Ponkie Poy, Panko,etc.) particularly in cases where she's doing very Pinkie-ish things. Of all them, variations of "Ponk" ended up being the most popular.

Rainbow Dash

X needs to be about/is now 20% cooler. explanation From Rainbow Dash's hilariously vague suggestions for her dress in "Suited for Success", "It just needs to be about 20% cooler."

Ten. Seconds. Flat.explanation From the pilot, Rainbow Dash claiming she can clear the skies over Ponyville of stray clouds in "Ten seconds flat", and then delivering on that promise.

LIVING THE DREAM! explanation Rainbow Dash, who wants to go to the Grand Galloping Gala so she can show off for the Wonderbolts, says this to Twilight in "The Ticket Master" in an effort to convince Twilight to give her the extra ticket.

Rainbow Dash has balsa-wood wings. explanation The most common source of Hurt/Comfort Fic for this fandom is fanfic in which Rainbow Dash breaks her wings (which actually happens in the Canadian live show, though not onstage). It's reached the point where Equestria Daily has jokingly banned this sort of fic outright.

Zig-zagged during Season 2. At first her "Atomic Rainboom" scene (see above) essentially nullified all of them. Later during "May the Best Pet Win!", Dash gets the tip of one wing pinned under a boulder and later has to have it bandaged up after being freed. This either gave the fics some credibility again, or killed them off for good, depending on how you look at it (her wings aren't immune to damage, but she only needed a bandage after a boulder fell on one of them). In "Read it and Weep," she does in fact break a wing, giving the fics credibility again, but again she walks it off in under a week, and while she certainly wasn't happy about the incident, she was more grumpy than "traumatized".

Rainbow Dash dyes her mane. explanation A fan art trend where Rainbow Dash is drawn dying her mane rainbow using either a can of rainbow paint or hair dye or bathing in a pool of rainbow such as the ones seen on the episode "Sonic Rainboom".. That this is possible is supported in the Magic Duel episode, wherein Fluttershy is disguised as Rainbow Dash to make it appear that Twilight had successfully executed a Duplication spell in order to fool Trixie.

Rainbow Dash plus sunglasses (three times through the first 8 episodes of season 2, as well as in the Fashion Style Rainbow Dash toy, several licensed shirts, and the fanimation Epic Cupcake Time) equals numerous "DEAL WITH IT" memes.

Ninja Dash explanation Rainbow slips on her very own stealth suit in order to break into the hospital.

What's Rainbow Reading?explanation Photoshopped pics of Rainbow Dash being offered various books to read, and her reactions to them.

Rainbow Dash will have a boyfriend in Season 3. explanation From this image, which was made in July and quickly circulated around the fandom. But it was promptly Jossed by Lauren Fausthere on Twitter.

Rainbow Dash is Iceman. explanation From "Wonderbolts Academy", where Dash finds herself in the unusual role of being the voice of reason to a hot-headed showoff pony who keeps breaking flight safety regulations to make herself look more awesome. Which, since the entire episode is a huge homage to Top Gun, means that she's the Iceman to Lightning Dust's Maverick.

Rainbow Dash bounces a ball.explanation In "Read It and Weep" while Rainbow Dash is confined to a hospital bed there's a brief scene of her bouncing a ball against a wall. Several videos soon popped up extending this scene by increasinglengthsoftime.

Smugdash. explanation In "Daring Don't", Rainbow Dash makes a very smug face, similar to the "Bueno" 4chan face.

Alcoholic Dash. explanation Rainbow Dash has shown herself to be obsessed with cider in Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 already, and as of Bats! this was brought up again.

Rainbow's stool/stooldash. explanation After the airing of Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3, the image of a bored Rainbow rocking back and forth on her stool with a goofy grin caught on fast.

Rainbow Girrash. explanation An animation error in the season 5 premiere caused Rainbow Dash to turn into a rather disturbing abomination with an overly long neck.

DO I LOOK ANGRY?!explanation ...said with Rainbow showcasing an extremely furious, pouty and condescending looking to the others during "Tanks for the Memories" when refusing to accept Tank needs to hibernate.

Rainbow Grinchexplanation Rainbow in scheming to sabotage the weather factory in "Tanks for the Memories" gains a smile worthy of the Grinch.

Manebow Sparkleexplanation Rainbow comments Twilight's notes in "The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone" are like she's actually there talking to them, and then proceeds to imitate Twilight reading from the book with her mane shifted to Twilight's signature style.[[/labees

Apocalypse Dashexplanation In the Crystal War Timeline from The Cutie Re-Mark, Part 1, Rainbow Dash's battle scars and prosthetic wing make her look extra badass.

YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE ME! explanation Fluttershy's Freak Out! during "The Best Night Ever", the same scene that inspired the "Flutterage" meme, became memetic for being completely unexpected and terrifying.

Fluttertree. explanation Stems from a conversation in "Over a Barrel" in which Pinkie Pie takes Rainbow Dash's sarcastic remark about Fluttershy being a tree at face value. Combined with Fluttershy's remark "I'd like to be a tree", it sparked a lot of half-joking debate as to whether or not Fluttershy is, in fact, a tree, or simply the pony equivalent of a furry. It also inspired a number of pictures of Fluttershy as a tree, often combined with the phrase "Leaf-ing the dream!" Much later, the Cold Opening of "Hurricane Fluttershy" has a scene in which Rainbow Dash addresses a tree as Fluttershy and said tree turns out to be Fluttershy trying to hide using a tree costume. Even later, WeLoveFine came out with merchandise depicting Fluttershy as a tree or with a tree.

In the episode "Green isn't Your Color", a shot of a magazine cover featuring a mopey-looking Fluttershy with black streaks in her hair inspired a brief burst of "Emoshy" art.

Fluttershy is very loud.explanation Most videos on youtube featuring Fluttershy (usually videos lasting less then 10 seconds) doing something that makes quiet noises (screaming, for example) will almost always have people complaining about how loud the video is, despite the truth being the opposite.

Fluttershy is weak and helpless. explanation In The Return of Harmony Part 1, Discord attempts to get Fluttershy riled up in order to discord her, but Fluttershy instead fullheartedly and quietly agrees with everything he's saying about her, including that she's "weak and helpless", much to the hilarity of the fans who have seen her face dragons and manticores alike, staring down acockatrice, and many other awesome deeds. Many insist that she has trolledDiscord. A few videos on Youtube have Fluttershy saying she's weak and helpless, followed by a montage of her Moments of Awesome.

Fightershy / Flutterninja / Flutterzangief. explanation Fluttershy wrestling with a bear in "Lesson Zero" (even if she was actually giving it a chiropractic massage). It didn't take long for the Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat inspired images and videos to come out

Fluttershy's Hidden Depths. explanation In the episode "Suited For Success" Fluttershy rather quickly points out the flaws in Rarity's dress (before quickly reverting to her usual timid self), despite not showing any obvious knowledge about dressmaking previously. This has been reused in fanfics, showing Fluttershy's Hidden Depths about pretty much everything she does, before going shy again and saying something along the lines of "But, you know, however you do it is fine..."

Fluttershy crying over Philomena's Disney Death in "A Bird in the Hoof" inspired a string of pics in which she is seen watching a sad or touching scene (like the death of Bambi's mother, the death of Aerith, the death of Littlefoot's mother, or the ending of Toy Story 3). A less popular version is where she actually smiles, basically watching anything to make her happy instead (or for those with a cruel sense of humor, something that starts out looking innocent, like the movie adaptation of Watership Down or an episode of Happy Tree Friends).

Later expanded to manipulated images depicting any character reacting differently to anything, such as Twilight enjoying an educational program like Bill Nye the Science Guy, Applejack being disgusted by a B-movie or reality TV, Rainbow Dash watching an action movie, Spike watching Anime/Sentai/ giant robot or monster shows, or Derpy Hooves watching something downright surreal.

Flutterjuice/Juiceboxshy. explanation Originated in this page of Dash Academy, a fancomic, and popularized by this Ask Tumblr. It's about Fluttershy's liking of juiceboxes. It has since then spread to other ask Tumblrs and fan art.

Fluttermat explanation The same as Fluttertree above, but with Fluttershy as a doormat instead. Stems from Rarity's description of Fluttershy's attitude in "Putting Your Hoof Down"

Hootershy / Flutterack explanation Anthropomorphised Fluttershy art tends to depict her with an abundant bustline, for any number of reasons ranging from an interpretation of her motherly instincts and Moe personality to Author Appeal. Eventually, nicknames were made on Derpibooru for other characters depicted with a large bust, making this meme no longer limited to Fluttershy alone. Here's a picture that shares some of the names given.

Related to the above, Fluttersweater explanation Anthro-Fluttershy tends to be a Sweater Girl.

Futashy explanation Drawing Fluttershy as a hermaphrodite.

Fluttershy is an honorary Japanese. explanation When fansubbed versions of the show began to show up on Nico Nico Douga, Japanese fans decided that Fluttershy's similarity to the Yamato Nadeshiko archetype meant she was honorarily Japanese. Although mostly localized to Japan, a few articles and blogs have brought the meme to the attention of Western fans.

Bad Advice Fluttershyexplanation Coming from the comic series, one panel in the third issue has Fluttershy leaning out of a rounded frame, providing explanation what is going on off-panel. Stripping away the spoken text leaves a perfect exploitable for Fluttershy to give bad advice, such as "Always use Comic Sans".

"Nature is so fascinating"explanation Also from the comic, an exploitable of a weird or eerie natural thing, followed by the comic panel of Fluttershy looking on in awe, saying "Nature is so fascinating".

Kyubeyshyexplanation When it was announced that Emiri Katou would voice Fluttershy in the Japanese dub, it started a wave of fanart depicting Fluttershy as Kyubey from Puella Magi Madoka Magica, which was one of the characters that Emiri Katou previously voiced.

Dumb Rock! explanation Said by Filly Rarity in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" when her horn leads her to an apparently-ordinary rock.

No one must ever know that I am part marshmallow! explanation A shot of Rarity reaching towards the camera from "A Dog and Pony Show", with her hooves drawn in a way that they resemble marshmallows, inspired a string of jokes about Rarity actually being a marshmallow, much like "Fluttertree" and "Scootachicken". This, in turn, led to jokes about Rarity's sister Sweetie Belle being a marshmallow too (with "For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils" having a couplemoments that adds more fuel to the meme). "Marshmallow pony" was eventually used by WeLoveFine to refer to Rarity in the online description and tags of their Rarity Nouveauart printandshirt.

Rarity x Tom OTP!explanation In part 2 of the Season 2 premiere, Rarity continues to haul the rock around that Discord made her think was a ginormous diamond and named it Tom.

Dan the boulder. explanation Prior to part two, the boulder was dubbed "Dan" by fans due to Youtube captions, the same way Steven Magnet was named. When part two aired and Rarity named him Tom, people compromised and decided his name was Tom Dan.

"Look Out! Here Comes Tom!"explanation A scene with Tom hurled out of a window resulted in jokes of him being replaced with anyone else named Tom.

According to his collectible card, Tom was the rock used in "Too Many Pinkie Pies" to block the entrance to the Mirror Pool.

<Mundane problem> Of all the worst things that could happen, this is the. WORST! POSSIBLE!THING!explanation Rarity being a hammy drama queen in "Lesson Zero"

"I'll show you something worthy of Canterlot!" explanation From "Sweet and Elite", after Rarity gets ridiculed by some upper-class ponies for being "country", she retreats to her suite at Canterlot castle, says this line, and whips up a design for Twilight's new dress. It inspired a meme where Rarity says her line, and is shown to draw something silly, then react to it with delight or disgust as appropriate.

Rarity is Jewish. explanation Amongst the many drawings of ponies doing Christmas activities, the fans have decided - for unclear reasons, but possibly based on either the accent used by their mother or an old Religious Stereotype about tailors or jewelers being Jewish - to have Rarity and Sweetie Belle celebrate Hanukkah. One Equestria Daily banner even shows them playing dreidel with Pinkie Pie and losing heavily.

Not too much of a stretch. Her parents can be described as stereotypically middle-class New York Jewish from their appearance in "Sisterhooves Social"; and Rarity herself has displayed some Jewish Princess tendencies from time to time (albeit considerably more generous and less spoiled than the stereotypical JP, though just as much a drama queen).

Rarity's newspaper reaction. explanation A three panel image exploitable, based on Rarity reading the school paper in "Ponyville Confidential". The top and bottom shots are of Rarity reading the paper intently, and a shocked reaction, but the order may change to justify the joke around the middle panel. Also has been used as "implied facehoof" reaction images, as at one point, Rarity's look while holding the newspaper is similar to Tommy Lee Jones' implied facepalm in No Country for Old Men as blunt non-vocal criticism of a stupid idea.

Bend over explanation Rarity being depicted as a Memetic Molester often telling others to "bend over".

Anaface Rarity. explanation A picture of Rarity scoring a 0/10 on the Anaface web program plus a negative reaction has become popular. Showing other characters (such as Derpy, Tom or Pinkie) who get a higher score on the program in addition to her reaction has become mildly memetic.

Rarity vs. a Giant Crab.explanation Similar to the Trixie eating pinecones thing, a Deviantart user asked for several pictures of Rarity fighting a giant crab. He got them.

I WHIP MY TAIL BACK AND FORTH! explanation A video loop of Rarity whipping her tail back and forth in Friendship is Magic Part 2 overdubbed by a sample from Willow Smith's song "Whip My Hair".

Raricow explanation Drawing Rarity as a cow has apparently become a thing in Japan.

And then there's Rarity explanation Popularized in EQD's recaps of S4 episodes, generally when an in-show scene or joke is based on Rarity doing something with her type of flair contrasting to the other Manes.

Rariball explanation A photoshop meme featuring Rarity curled up in a ball. The image originates in a scene from the Season 6 episode “The Gift of Maud Pie”. The scene takes place when Rarity is imitating Pinkie Pie’s normal personality, referencing how she is different than usual.

Prunity explanation The opening scene in "Applejack's "Day" Off" featured a gag in which Rarity is left in a steam room for too long, causing her face and horn to wrinkle and prune up.

Spike is quickly becoming identified as a stoner. explanation Similarly to the Bedroom Eyes meme above, the Running Joke of someone pausing a clip of an episode and seeing Spike with an expression of someone with cannabinoid intoxication. That, and his portrayal in later PONY.MOV episodes.

Congratulations, Spike! You're the new Rainbow Dash!explanation In part 2 of the Season 2 premiere, Rainbow Dash is missing and thus they have no Element of Loyalty. Twilight, who is stressed out and in a hurry, gives Spike the Element of Loyalty necklace and says he's the "new Rainbow Dash".

"That won't end well..." explanation Right after Twilight makes Spike the new Rainbow Dash, he's afraid of what will happen to him once Rainbow Dash finds out. This has led to various images of what would happen when Rainbow Dash finally does confront him on the matter.

Pega-Spike explanation Spike transformed into a Pegasus has appeared in many fanarts and at least one fanfic, starting from back in season 1. More recent fanart naturally depicts his Pegasus version as a recolor of Rainbow Dash, thanks to the previous meme.

And then Spike died. explanation Early on in Luna Eclipsed, Rainbow Dash scares Pinkie, Spike and some fillies with her lightning cloud. Spike promptly passes out, and is carried off by Twilight; because of his shaking and drooling, nearly every online chat about the episode will invariably include a "Spike died." comment.

Spike is the new main character. explanation Until "Sweet and Elite", Spike had appeared in more episodes of Season 2 than Twilight Sparkle, who was missing from "Sisterhooves Social", and was only one of two characters (the other, humorously enough, being Applejack) to appear in every season 2 episode up to that point. This meme has since become heavily ironic as Spike hasn't appeared on the show reqularly since "Hearth's Warming Eve."

Spike is unemployed. explanation The response to Spike becoming more and more Out of Focus as the show goes on, mainly considering that he no longer writes letters to Princess Celestia, and the characters just dictate the moral of the episode in a narrative voice instead.

SPIKE WANT! explanation In "Secret of My Excess", Spike goes into a rapid growth spurt and displays the infamous dragon greed. As he gets bigger, his speech gradually devolves into yelling "SPIKE WANT!".

Run! It's Spikezilla! explanation Also from "Secret of My Excess", Spike's form at his peak size drew a lot of comparisons to the first American version of Godzilla.

Spike's Business Card explanation From "Spike At Your Service", Spike holds up a card containing his personal Dragon Code, making it a perfect exploitable.

The Sex Pit explanation The Crusaders' solution to the problem they caused in Hearts and Hooves Day involved getting Big Macintosh to fall into a deep pit they dug with a matress at the bottom. The fun here comes in the form of shopping in other characters and/or altering the Crusaders' reactions. The fact that Cheerilee called it a feather bed only gave the meme more credibility when the word feather was implied to be a Precision F-Strike in Putting Your Hoof Down.

ONE. DAY. explanation in "Sisterhooves Social", Apple Bloom lets Sweetie Belle borrow Applejack for the contest, but makes sure she understands it's only temporary. This line made it onto an officially licensed shirt in less than a week after the episode's premiere.

Applecopter. explanation In "The Cutie Pox", one of Apple Bloom's loop-de-hoop tricks involves spinning the hoop around her tail fast enough that she takes off like a helicopter.

"My Sister's Speaking [X]!" explanation A snowclone spawned from another scene in "The Cutie Pox", where Apple Bloom gets a fleur-de-lis cutie mark that causes her to compulsively speak French, to which a baffled and horrified Applejack remarks "My sister's speakin' Fancy!" This scene inspired a few comics where Apple Bloom is forced to speak in other "languages", such as Chinese, British English, "Internet", Wingdings, and Daedric.

Gangsta Bloom explanation The fleur-de-lis is also the gang sign of the 3rd Street Saints. This has not passed the fans by.

Apple Dictionary explanation Like Sweetie Belle before her, in Family Appreciation Day, it's Apple Bloom's turn to be called a dictionary following her lamentations about Granny Smith representing her family on the eponymous day.

Bunny Bloom explanation Apple Bloom wears a rabbit suit in Family Appreciation Day. The fans think it makes her extremelycute.

Pikabloom explanation Similar to Kyubeyshy, Apple Bloom gets this nickname and a bunch of fanart of her in a Pikachu costume due to her Japanese voice, Ikue Otani, being the same as Pikachu.

Scootaloo

Scootabuse explanation When asked whether Scootaloo is Rainbow Dash's little sister Lauren Faust said no, stating that Dash would not be a good big sister. Some fans took this a little too far, which resulted in various fanarts depicting Rainbow Dash physically abusing Scootaloo, some more gruesome than others. On the other hand, this comic strongly suggests that Rainbow Dash doesn't necesarily need to be the one doing the abusing. It also, however, leads us right into...

Scootalove explanation Formed as a reaction to Scootabuse, consisting of heartwarming fanart and fanfics about Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo. This has, in turn, led to such things as "ScootaBDSM" and other bizarre images.

Not really confirmedJossed, but the ending to "Sleepless in Ponyville" seems to imply that Scootalove is the canon relationship between the two as of now.

Pinkie Pie dressing up as a chicken for Nightmare Night spawned a few more jokes about this.

Scootadodo explanation And then jokes emerged of Scootaloo being a dodo, after a clip from the season 2 premiere was posted in which Sweetie Belle calls Scootaloo a dodo.

Cutealoo explanation This is used mainly when a particularly cute pose or picture of Scootaloo is referenced, such as when Twilight says "Good Friends" in "Lesson Zero: and sees Scootaloo cutely crouched down.

Chickunexplanation A variant of the "bedroom eyes" meme in which the eyes are accompanied by a bizarre mouth expression. Sometimes used alongside "arise" and "shitpost". Has become a Discredited Meme by this time.

Sweetie Belle

Sweetieabuse. explanation In much the same way as Scootabuse, Sweetie Belle isn't immune to being treated badly by her sister. Various fanart depicts her as actually being an illegitimate child of Rarity's by whom she's very embarrassed. She's also depicted as being a ditz and living in a cupboard under the stairs.

Sweetie Derelle. explanation Another unflattering depiction of Sweetie Belle being an extremely loud annoying sibling - specifically, a picture of her shouting a long string of capitAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAl A's is used to flag threads with NSFW content. Naturally, it's been photoshopped to look like other characters.

Sweetie Dictionary explanation Not long after the season 2 premiere aired, Scootaloo's remark "What are you, a dictionary?" inspired pictures of Sweetie Belle as a dictionary.

Dumb Fabric! explanation Said by Sweetie Belle in "The Show Stoppers" when a roll of fabric gets away from her. Made into ashirt & hoodie.

"I, uh, really like her mane..." in response to a fan's OC pony (most of which aren't really that great, due to Sturgeon's Law). The quote comes from Sweetie Belle's original reaction in being forcefully offered a raggedy old doll named "Smarty Pants" by a crazy Twilight.

"OH, COME ON!" explanation Sweetie Belle's reaction in "Hearts & Hooves Day" when Cheerilee and Big Macintosh fail to hit it off the first time, used in response to an unexpected result of a highly anticipated event.

Squeaky Belle explanation A Fan Nickname due to Sweetie Belle's voice cracking and abruptly changes pitch a lot. It has noticeably toned down as Claire Corlett's voice has matured.

Golden Sweetie Belle / Sweetie Gold explanation Many have made note of Sweetie Belle's pretty appearance due to her being covered with golden luster dust in "One Bad Apple". She has been associated with Bender in a strange mashup with the Sweetie Bot meme, as well as C-3P0.

Milkshake Sweetie Belle explanation During the Babs Seed song, Sweetie Belle is seen drinking from a Milkshake while bobbing with the song. Its cuteness is reminiscent of the Juicebox/Fluttershy meme.

Sweetie's Noteexplanation An exploitable based on this comic, though with several variations, including panel reordering and altering the last one into various expressions for Sweetie Belle.

Diasweetes explanation It's commonly agreed Sweetie Belle is the cutest of the trio (if not one of the show's cutest characters) with factors including her voice, her appearance, and just her overall sweetness. The term has snowcloned to numerous portmanteaus of a character's name with the word "diabetes" in some way to refer to them being cute.

Thrackerzod!explanation A parody version of Sweetie Bell from the Mentally Advanced Series abridged videos as well as Rainbow Dash Presents (both made by the same creators). In said parodies, Sweetie Bell is re-imagined as an Eldritch Abomination named "Thrackerzod" who tries to blend in with "normal" ponies.

Sweetie Belle and Minecraft/video games explanation Claire Corlett, Sweetie's voice actress, is an avid Minecraft player, even having posted videos of herself playing the game. This has translated to the concept that Sweetie Belle plays Minecraft, and used as a basis to pair her along with Button Mash (the colt with the beanie seen playing a video game in "Hearts and Hooves Day", and named such by Jan Animations).

TO THE MOON! explanation A recurring joke whenever a Pony thinks they'll be punished by Celestia, or adding it on like it's a threat to a bird like Philomena, all due to the fact she banished Luna to the moon. It's also considered her go-to solution when things don't work for her.

"Do you like bananas? So, you're a bitch that likes bananas? Well, that's great. Cause you 'bout to GO bananas! On the MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONAAAAAAAA! BEE-YETCH!" explanation in said fanimation, Princess Celestia asks the ponies who come to complain about her rule if they like bananas, then sends them all to the moon regardless of their answer. Including her sister. The line "do you like MMMMMMM bananas?" has since made it onto an official shirt, Do YouLike Bananas?extra note She also likes to get her bananas from Publix, a grocery store chain centered in Florida that had been featured in previous cartoons by the animator.

Princess Momlestia explanation Recent trend on derpibooru, depicting Celestia hugging other ponies and acting toward them like a mother, usually with Twilight. Other pictures also show just what happens when her subjects are threatened, especially Twilight. The aftermath isnotpretty.

And on a similar note, "Your Momjesty!" explanation A number of more comedic fics have Twilight accidentally referring to Celestia in a manner implying she served as a surrogate mother to her.

"No one mare should have all that power!" explanation Snowclone of "No one man should have all that power" (the refrain from Kanye West's also-memetic "Power"), related to expressing doubt in Celestia's rule. Likely introduced by this fan video's intro - there's also a side-by-side comparison with the original video, for the curious.

Cakelestia explanation "Ponyville Confidential" shows a picture of Celestia gorging herself on cake, and "MMMystery on the Friendship Express" shows her licking her lips while looking expectantly at a cake. After those two episode, it became common for fanart and fanfic to depict cake as Celestia's Trademark Favorite Food.

Pinklestia explanation The infamous pink "Royal Castle Friends" Celestia talking toys. (Technically, in the show Princess Celestia is indeed pink rather than white, but it's so light pink that it's barely noticeable.)

MY WINGS ARE SO PRETTY!explanation One of the lines said by the infamous talking Princess Celestia toy.

Luna/AbacusOTPexplanation After the fanfiction Progress depicted Luna as obsessed with an abacus for various reasons, it became common for other stories to mention Luna's extreme attachment to "Abby", even in stories that romantically pair her with someone else.

Along the same lines, the leaked episode synopsis rekindled interest in the "Where My Woona!?" meme, seeing as she's finally making an appearance in the show proper since the whole Nightmare Moon incident.

PRINCESS CAPSLOCK/CANTERLOCK explanation The Royal Canterlot Voice has been described as her talking with capslock on, and various jokes about capslock were re-purposed (such as "The Royal Canterlot Voice is cruise control for cool").

Canon Luna is the best Luna. explanation Said as a form of praise to Luna's first canonical appearance in "Luna Eclipsed", after all the fan work and speculation that had surrounded her canon personality for the whole year prior to that episode.

Luna killed my fanfics! explanation The direct opposite of the above.

Redo the fanon! explanation A call to all fans to redo their fanwork to match Canon Luna. Some, like the comic that started the "BLEEEEH ALFALFA MONSTER" meme, have already been redone in the Traditional Royal Canterlot Voice. The Luna tumblr accounts also immediately adapted it.

Trollestia did it!explanation Fans who really did not expect Luna's behavior in said episode already found a target to jokingly blame it on.

Luna Ducreuxexplanation Spawned from the Joseph Ducreux meme where famous catch phrases and memes are translated into Old English. This variation replaces Ducreux with Luna herself. Phrases used are often brony memes such as phrases from the show or other brony memes.

LunaDanceexplanation A gif of happy young Luna dancing to moon-related music on the moon, spawned by an attempt to explain what she did for 1000 years.

Luna is friggen' useless. explanation Luna was conspicuously absent during the battle sequence from A Canterlot Wedding, despite even Celestia engaging in combat. Many a fan took note, and wondered just what she was doing at the time.

Counterpoint: LunaPUNCH!explanation A few frames of Luna rearing back threateningly got edited into her decking Chrysalis as an alternate ending to A Canterlot Wedding. This being the Internet, she soon moved on to punching various other characters from different shows.

The above is typically used whenever someone knowingly joins a conversation after some semi-interesting event has happened, considering what she missed in those two episodes.

User A: Man, I'm glad we finally got rid of that troll.

User B: Hello everypony. Did I miss anything?

User A: Did you miss anything!? You missed a troll raid!

And so on.

"You're my favorite princess!" explanation Pipsqueak says this to Luna during the episode Luna Eclipsed. The sentence has gained popularity. Though typically used to refer to Luna, "X is my favorite princess" is occasionally used to describe Celestia, Cadance or even other characters that are sometimes not princesses at all (just like "X is best pony" is occasionally used for non-ponies).

"LUNA IS BEST FREDDY KRUEGER!"explanation: After "Sleepless in Ponyville" established that part of Luna's repertoire included visiting people in their dreams, comments were made comparing Luna to a benevolent version of Freddy (in that she's protecting people in their dreams instead of killing them)

Catapult Lunaexplanation At the beginning of "Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?", Luna wakes up in a panic. Fans have used this image and placed various strange "dreams" just before it, implying that they were nightmarish.

Just roll with it. explanation After a massive buildup over months and months of wondering how the show would introduce a new winged unicorn to the show's pantheon, it wasn't that big a deal during and after the show aired.

Cadance's Bedtime Stories.explanation A piece of fanart showing Cadance reading a bedtime story to Twilight quickly became an exploitable. Link points to original art because the link to the tag breaks the formatting.

Her giant wings explanation When fans were presented with the preview showing her first appearance, the clip drew detail to her having wings. The size of them when they were expanded, as well as there being a long time before fans got an official explanation as to why her having wings was so shocking to the ponies (she was born an alicorn when all others were made), led them to believe that her wings are unnaturally large and that, as she'll get older, her wings will be bigger than her own body.

Flurry Heart - Season Six's villain! explanation There is always a villain that shows up in the Season Premiere in some form. Seeing as the main threat in "The Crystalling" seems to be the baby's Power Incontinence, many are saying that she is the villain for the season.

Swiss Cheese Legs explanation The holes in the legs of Queen Chrysalis and the other changelings look like... yeah.

Queen Swissalis explanation Ditto.

"X is a Changeling!" explanation A Running Gag among the fandom for when more than one of the same background pony appeared at the same time.

An image of a pig wearing Diamond Tiara's tiara after the latter falls into a mud pit in "One Bad Apple" has led to representation of DT by a pig wearing a tiara.

Trixie

Trixie wears her heart on her cloak. explanation Almost every shipping fic with Trixie has one of the Mane Cast salvage and repair her hat and cloak as a romantic gesture. The hat and cloak themselves are usually described as either an inheritance from an adored family member, or things Trixie made herself with her magic when she first started her show, and almost always have some sentimental value for Trixie, regardless if the fic is shipping or not.

Rarity is a fashionista cupid. explanation Tied in with the meme directly above, if the character Trixie is being shipped with isn't Rarity, the one she is being shipped with will have talked Rarity into fixing the hat and cloak for them to give to Trixie.

Trixie's favorite food is pinecones. explanation A brony by the name of Bronymike spent quite a lot of time requesting art of Trixie eating pinecones. Hegotit.

Trixie and peanut butter crackers.explanation From her one spoken line in Equestria Girls.

Trixie doesn't trust wheels. explanation In "Magic Duel", Trixie makes Snips and Snails pull her personal chariot; when they ask why the chariot lacks wheels, she (likely due With Great Power Comes Great Insanity induced by the Alicorn Amulet, or because she was Drunk on the Dark Side and lying to make their lives harder for spite) answers "The Great and Powerful Trixie doesn't trust wheels. Now pull faster!" This led quite a few bronies to create art of Trixie demonstrating her distrust, or of whatever incident from Trixie's past that caused her to distrust wheels.

Trixie loves teacups. explanation "All Bottled Up" begins with Trixie practicing her magic by trying to turn a salt shaker into a teacup. When she succeeds, she gets excited and starts turning other things into teacups. Bronies ran with it for fan art and turned it into Trixie having an infatuation with teacups.

Discord

Discord dancing on Twilight's head seems to have swiftlybecomeone. It didn't take long for a piece of fananimation showing the real Discord doing that dance, either. Then there's this.

DisQord. explanation Discord was voiced by John de Lancie, who also voiced Q in various Star Trek series, and the character was heavily inspired by Q as well, resulting in this Fan Nickname. Star Trek/MLP mashups were also inevitable following the first episode.

Discord's Dimension of Doom!Explanation In Make New Friends But Keep Discord, there is a scene where Discord opens a portal into another dimension inhabited by sock puppets. Fans have edited stills of the portal so that it leads to various other locations of dubious quality.

King Sombra

Lord Donut SteelExplanation Sombra's fan-given nickname before his official name was revealed. A play on "Do not steal", a phrase often mockingly used in relation to Original Characters (since many fans have complained King Sombra looks like a bad fanmade character).

Has also been extended into Lord Donut Steel Of The Sombrero Republic.

King SombreroExplanation A play on his name, "Sombra".

Sombra X stairs = OTPExplanation King Sombra had levels upon levels of stairs in his castle, leading some to wonder whether he had a peculiar love for stairs in general.

King Sombra can't speak properly.Explanation King Sombra had very few speaking lines in the episode, and his peculiar voice makes them difficult to decipher.

GAKExplanation Recurring commercials for a toy named Gak during the Season 3 premiere (and by "recurring", we mean "at one point airing four times in a row") led to King Sombra being memetically associated with this toy and the word GAK in general.

GAK got more screentime than King SombraExplanation A joke contrasting the prevalence of the commercial with to the meager screentime the villain received.

"Still a better villain than Sombra."Explanation King Sombra is commonly accused of being a Generic Doomsday Villain with no real character to speak of. Taken to extremes when minor antagonists who aren't actually villainous are said to be better villains than Sombra.

Combining two above memes, we get "Still more screentime than Sombra."

King Sombra: BUCKING DEAD!explanation After five seasons and three movies, King Sombra is still the only main antagonist to be Killed Off for Real, while everyone else has been sealed someplace or reformed.

Stupid sexy Sombra! explanation Fanart of Sombra in a more natural pony form after "The Crystal Empire" tend to draw him on the Tall, Dark, and Handsome side. Not helped when one IDW comic arc feature a mirror world Sombra who is not power hungry, completely gentlemanly, and actually is Tall, Dark, and Handsome, having both Rarity and Fluttershy falter on sight of him.

Five Minutes... explanation While his initial appearance made him out to be very underwhelming, the season five finale showed an alternate timeline where all of Equestria was at war with him and he seemed to be winning. This is commonly called "The five minutes where Sombra was best villain."

Sunset Shimmer

Sunset Shimmer is Equestria Girls' Gary Motherfucking Oak. Explanation Sunset Shimmer has been compared to Gary Oak due to their similar personalities.

Prom Queen Meme Explanation In EQG there was a part where pictures of Sunset Shimmer as prom queen for the past years were shown. There was a blank "photo frame" which was quickly turned into an exploitable.

Sunset's Art Critics Explanation A fancomic of EQG showed Sunset Shimmer looking at a stone carving she had made of the Mane Six admiring her, only to have the EQG Mane Five show up and express their disapproval by demolishing it. The original "carving" was excised and the blank space turned into an exploitable.

Yeah!!!!!!!! Explanation Sunset has also been frequently compared to Vriska Serket, for the same reasons (and appearance, as well).

Sunset Screamerexplaination In one of the trailers for Rainbow Rocks, Sunset is seen falling into a panicked look when she encounters Maud Pie in the middle of the night while at a sleepover at Pinkie's house. The reaction image has been used for other shocking images.

Lord Tirek

Tirek Vs. Everyone Explanation The original teaser image of Tirek with his claim of defeating the princesses, only to be countered by an image of a character from another series or famous celebrity coming in to save the day.

Everyone Steals Tirek's Meme Explanation Turning the former meme on it's head, other villains (and sometimes even heroes) drop in with a claim of defeating the princesses and taking over Equestria, leading to a very irritated Tirek complain about how they're stealing his lines.

Tirek's outstretched arms. Explanation One of Tirek's poses inspired a bunch of 'shops, some of them slapping a caption on the original screenshot, others editing Tirek into other shows or movies where a character made a similar pose.

"Is this supposed to be humorous?" Explanation An exploitable, based on Tirek's response to the stained-glass portrait of Princess Twilight. Replace the stained glass window with anything at all for an instant Take That!. It should be noted that the line is misquoted. The actual line is "Is this meant to be humorous?!"

WHEEEEREEEEE IS [X]? Explanation A screenshot of Tirek shouting superposed with the caption "WHEEEREEEE IS [insert something here]?!" Based on Tirek shouting "WHERE IS YOUR MAGIC?!" at the Princesses.

Sonataco Explanation Based on the eagerness that Sonata shows learning it's Taco Tuesday at the school, fans have assumed this is her Trademark Favorite Food to the same level that Derpy loves muffins.

Starlight Glimmer is the new AmonExplanation Glimmer is extremely often compared to this villain, due to their similar motivations and hypocrisy.

Starlight Glimmer Normalizes some thingsExplanation A minor meme wherein Glimmer fires the Staff of Sameness at various interesting-looking people or objects, turning them into blander versions of themselves, like this or this

"...best served cold!"explanation Starlight Glimmer was seen in the background of "Amending Fences," hiding behind a menu during the cafe scene. Fans have run wild speculating on why she was there, but the most common interpretation was that she was spying on Twilight to plan her eventual vengeance.

Starlight Stalkerexplanation Also from that scene, but popularized before it was revealed that she would be back *and* stalking Twilight based on the S5 finale animatic at SDCC 2015.

Sarcastic Cloppingexplanation From "The Cutie Remark Part 2", Starlight gives Twilight a moment of Sarcastic Clapping when Twilight's attempt to capture her ends up capturing Rainbow Dash, once again kicking off another changed timeline.

PTSD Glimmerexplanation Based on the Season 6 premiere, Starlight freaks out at the idea of having to learn about friendship, including a brief scene where she's panicking and white noise starts overtaking the background noise, one possible symptom of suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Starlight really likes kitesexplanation A scene in "Rock Solid Friendship" features Starlight showing Maud how to fly a kite, excitedly gushing over it as she does.

Starlight op plz nerf.explanation Starlight's power levels, which rivals that of alicorns and may even surpass them, are a controversial element thanks to how she seems able to do anything.

Wow! Glimmerexplanation A cropped image from an advertisement in Gameloft's My Little Pony game advertising the addition of Starlight Glimmer (which originally said "Wow! Starlight Glimmer Bundle", but cropped to just the words in the middle, "Wow! Glimmer".

"Who is responsible for subjecting our eyes to these... horrors?" explanation From Hoity Toity's reaction to the first batch of dresses in "Suited for Success", this is the standard response to Brain Bleach moments.

The Most Interesting Pony In The World explanation Fancypants from "Sweet and Elite" impressed a lot of fans by being classy without being stuck-up, earning a number of comparisons to The Most Interesting Man in the World.

Madame Jubilee explanation Cherry Jubilee, from "The Last Roundup" runs a cherry orchard in a western-themed town called Dodge Junction. Her business-attitude, Southern Belle accent, and constant bedroom-eyes have led to her being compared to a brothel madame.

Daring Do cover arts explanation An art trend where artists make their own cover arts for the fictional Daring Do franchise. Usually comes in two flavors: the usual book cover format and comic book (complete with fake publisher logos, price tag, and a random issue number).

Peepingweight explanation Featherweight, a shutterbug pegasus introduced in "Ponyville Confidential" looking through a cellar window or into the spa with camera at the ready, followed by a candid image.

Everypony is gay for Braeburn explanation Braeburn is a cowboy-like pony who lives in a very Wild West inspired town. His Keetness made him incredibly popular almost instantly. Additionally, he is most often seen shipped with other male ponies (mostly Big Macintosh or Soarin'). Probably a reference to Brokeback Mountain and/or the Guilty Gear "Bridget" meme..

Waifu/Husbando stealer explanation With "waifu"/"husbando" being Internet slang for "a character that I would want to marry one day", the term is applied to any character that appears to capture a romantic interest on the show, otherwise denying that character to the fan. Originally applied to Flash Sentry for being Twilight's love interest in Equestria Girls, and later with the Good King Sombra of the IDW Comic series (Issues #17 to #20) who was shown to have won over Princess Celestia's heart.

They told me not to list this meme, "BUT I DIDN'T LISTEN!"explanation A scene during the fifth season premiere in which Party Favor frantically explaining to Starlight Glimmer that he did his best to ignore Twilight Sparkle and the other's talks about friendship, with the fans really taking note of the derp-eyed expression he has as he says it. The meme either involves Party Favor exclaiming how he refused to listen to something of the poster's choice or one of the other characters making a similar facial expression.

"X NOT PERFECT! YAKS DESTROY!"explanation The yak diplomats in Yakyakistan... basically spouted this over and over. Fans have taken their reaction as a parody of overly-critical people and ran with it.

CAPITALISM! explanation During a shared dream sequence in "Do Princesses Dream Of Magic Sheep," Filthy Rich is seen flying around on a cloud of bits and blasting the baddie with the same. The image has quickly become a meme exploitable, with various money-based sayings being slapped on it.

Shining Armor

"TWILY!!!"explanation Shining Armor's nickname for Twilight Sparkle. Has become somewhat of a meme for people to quote it in livestream chat or during reaction videos when Shining Armor appears onscreen.

Shining Armor: Wife Tosser / Epic Wife Tossingexplanation In the second part of the season three premiere, Shining Armor performs a Fastball Special, with his wife Cadance serving as the ball.

Liquid pride. explanation When Twilight Sparkle was crowned as a princess, Shining Armor started crying. He tried to downplay his tears as "liquid pride" when Twilight asked about them. As a result, "liquid pride" immediately became a fan euphemism for Manly Tears.

Screaming Armor explanation A panel from Issue #11 in the IDW series has Shining Armor yelling "Hello" to Princess Cadance while he's a nervous wreck. It became another exploitable for fans to work with.

Photo Finish

Photo Finish from "Green Isn't Your Color" is another Fountain of Memes. "It iz time to make... de magicks!"

Even her X is graceful! explanation A snowclone that shows up on videos of Fluttershy doing something cute, funny, or both. Inspired by Photo Finish's "Even her sneezes are graceful!" remark in "Green Isn't Your Color"; thus, it's frequently typed in a bad German Funetik Aksent.

Big Mac x Smarty Pants OTP!explanation Near the end of Lesson Zero, after everyone reverts to normal from the spell that Twilight Sparkle placed on the Smarty Pants doll, Big Mac notices the discarded doll and takes it for himself.

Big Macintosh is a brony. explanation See previous explanation.

Serious Mac.explanation Within hours of the Cider Squeezy episode airing, Mac's unusually stern "Apple Family huddle" has been subjected to exploitable 3-panel comics. Typically it involves him shamelessly depressing the hell out of another character.

"Big Macintosh gets ALL the mares!" explanation A popular fan depiction of Big Macintosh as a real ladies' man. The phrase is used as a reactionary comment or title to any fan work or discussion depicting him as this.

(S)He is the one called Sailor Mac!explanation During a shared dream sequence in "Do Princesses Dream Of Magic Sheep," Big Mac transformed into an alicorn, complete with a sailor moon-esque transformation sequence.

Thorax

Thorax is best Princess.explanation Pointing out that Thorax Character Arc rather mirrors Twilight's, what with him learning about Friendship, transforming into a new form and leadership position. Also a not-so-subtle dig at his rather timid personality - calling him King would be way to manly for him.

Background Ponies

General

"Brushie brushie brushie" explanation A Photoshopped pic of background pony Minuette (Fan Nicknamed "Colgate" since her blue and white mane resembles toothpaste) getting her head brushed with a toothbrush inspired a string of similar pictures with other ponies, frequently getting brushed in certain other parts of the anatomy.

There's a popular trend on YouTube where DJ-Pon3's bobbing head animation is synchronized with some Electronic Music, making it look as if she's banging her head to the beat of the music.

Octavia adds her own spin to the trend by having her playing animation synchronized with a piece of Classical Music, making it look like she's playing the piece herself.

Bon Bon: Equestria's top voice actress. explanation Background pony Bon Bon has had speaking parts in five different episodes ("Call of the Cutie", "Green Isn't Your Color", "Lesson Zero", "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000", and "Putting Your Hoof Down"), each time with a different voice. This has led to some fans joking Bon Bon is either a talented voice actress who keeps changing the way she sounds in order to keep her skills sharp, or (since the S2 finale) a closeted changeling. Became an Ascended Meme as of "Slice of Life", which revealed that she's actually a former secret agent hiding out in Ponyville.

"[PONY] [TOY NAME]" / "[TOY NAME] [PONY]" explanation Since the release of the blind bag toys that resemble the background ponies, some fans have adopted the toy names as their second names. Be it their surname, first name, or even their secret real name in Carrot Top's case.

Examples of name combinations are Lyra Heartstrings (which has since become Ascended Fanon), Blues Noteworthy or Noteworthy Blues, Rose's full name being Roseluck and Berryshine "Berry" Punch.

One that happened afterwards is Trixie—who is named in the show—being officially given the surname Lulamoon in the fifth wave after the fourth wave infamously called her just Lulamoon.

"Epic Wub Time", an original video where Octavia and DJ P0N-3/Vinyl Scratch are depicted as Odd Couple roommates. Features music by various dubstep artists connected to the MLP fandom, including The Living Tombstone's "Dubstep Dishwasher". A Fountain of Memes, most notably MAH BASS CANNON!

Octavia: I was going to be first-chair cellist for the Royal Canterlot Symphony. How is this my life?!

Octo Octavia/Octotavia explanation In a similar vein to sea pony Lyra, an art trend where Octavia is depicted as an "octopus pony". It started out as a simple pun to Octavia's name and its comparison to the word "octopus" and one of the nicknames that is often used by fans: "Octi/Octie/Octy" which is similar in name to Bubbles' stuffed octopus. Its inspiration came from a Vocaloid meme where one of the Vocaloid characters (Luka Megurine) is depicted as an octopus head known as "Tako Luka". The art trend was started by John Joseco[10][11]. Other artists soon followed.[12][13][14][15][16]

Crackle is best dragon! explanation Crackle, a one-shot gag character that looks a lot like Rarity's Paper-Thin Disguise dragon costume, has since become something of a memetic character due to its bizarre appearance.

Background pony copies are actually changelings! explanation Now that "A Canterlot Wedding" is out, people have designed this as an explanation for "clones" of background characters.

Button's video game reactionexplanation Similar to the television meme for nearly all the other ponies, an exploitable 3-panel pulled from the fan animation Button's Adventures featuring "Button Mash", the colt playing the video game in the Hearts & Hooves Day song. Button is seen staring at an old Pong-like video game console, and then replying "I don't get it" at the game's mechanics. Others have inserted any weird and strange game as the exploitable for the second panel.

Secret Agent Sweetie DropsExplanation After "Slice of Life" depicted her as a former secret agent, the fandom happily latched onto Sweetie Drops/Bon Bon as the James Bond/Jason Bourne of Equestria.

Amethyst Star is the reason the Winter Wrap-Up was always late.Explanation In "Slice of Life" she claimed she used to be the best organizer in Ponyville before Twilight moved to town. Season 1's "Winter Wrap-Up" has the Mayor tell Twilight the event has a history of never finishing on time. The fans put two and two together.

Best Friends!Explanation The hundredth episode had fan favorites Lyra and Bonbon—who are often considered the OTP of the fandom—in a scene where they acted very much like lovers, to the point where replacing every instance of "Best Friend" with "Special Somepony" would have made far more sense. Fans have noticed and turned it into a code phrase for romantic partners.

Flaskhead HeartsExplanation A scene from "Amending Fences" featured a brief flashback where Lemon Hearts somehow managed to get her head stuck inside a flask during biology class. The fandom took the image and rolled with it.

Derpy Hooves became canon in The Last Roundup, having a speaking role with and being called "Derpy" by Rainbow Dash. To say the fans were pleased would be quite the understatement.

Derpy got corrective eye surgery! explanation At the ceremony honouring Twilight and her friends in part 2 of the Season 2 premiere, Derpy/Ditzy is seen in the background without her traditional cockeyed appearance.

But apparently it didn't take. explanation She can be seen in Lesson Zero being attracted to the enchanted Miss Smartypants. When the spell is broken, she was fighting the Mayor hoof to hoof, derpy eyes and all.

"I emptied your fridge."Explanation A Catch-Phrase and Running Gag where Derpy empties the entire contents of somepony else's fridge for varying reasons or even no given reason at all. May or may not be through the consumption of the food inside. Usually Carrot Top's fridge to her annoyance due to the meme's origin.

Ancient Muffins explanation A variation of the Ancient Aliens image macro meme where muffins are the answer to every weird or odd occurrences in the show such as animation errors or plot holes as explained by Derpy Hooves. The image used in the macro originated from a deviantART submission by Equestria-Prevails called "Ancient Humans". Prior to the artwork, a photoshopped version of the Ancient Aliens guy with Derpy's head pasted over his was used.

Where's Derpy? explanation Derpy has appeared in every episode since "The Best Night Ever", and fans have made a habit of pointing her out in the same vein as Where's Waldo?. Starting with "Lesson Zero", Derpy's appearances have become a Once per EpisodeRunning Gag, to the point that The Hub themselves postedon their Facebook and Twitter pages about keeping an eye out for Derpy in "Hearth's Warming Eve" (incidentally making her name even more official than it already was).

Derpy's plot is iron! explanation Derpy's appearance in The Last Roundup. She had her own scene, and in it she plops down onto a floor...and breaks through. Taking Rainbow Dash with her.

Derpy Drama/Derpygate. explanation A name for all aforementioned memes concerning Derpy's recent controversy. The other name is obviously referencing the infamous Watergate scandal.

Derpy Shot First explanation After being removed from iTunes and skipped in The Hub's reruns, 'The Last Roundup' was re-released with Derpy's name not mentioned, her scenes revoiced, and her wall-eyed expression lessened. Reaction was... mixed. this is itself in reference to Star Wars' "Han Solo shot first" meme.

"I just don't know what went wrong." explanation Derpy's first spoken line in The Last Roundup is often quoted whenever somepony makes a mistake. Also often used in a sad context concerning the edit. Sometimes accompanied by the emoticon 9_6

They changed her voice/eyes, now we shall rage. explanation In response to the edit, dozens of reaction videos had soon followed depicting frustrated, irritated, and enraged feelings from the fans.

This character might be considered offensive; expect censorship. explanation The brief Derpy scare brought on a joke where similar characters will be censored. Including the mental patient barking Pony in "Read It and Weep" and Crackle in "Dragon Quest"

Derpy's Back for the Finale! explanation After being completely absent for 12 straight episodes, Derpy had no fewer than five appearances in the season three finale!

Take that, Elena Barabrich!explanation Webcomic artist Elena "Yamino" Barabrich is a common scapegoat for "Derpygate", as she expressed personal distaste at the episode in question a few short days before the censorship occurred. The show staff have actually tried to absolve her of all blame, with varying success. Perhaps not helped by her digging herself deeper.

Derpy is mad at Diamond Tiara.explanation In Ponyville Confidential, there is a scene where Diamond Tiara shoves Derpy's fanon daughter Dinky aside. There is fanart of Derpy turning up, pissed off.

That Pony/Mare!!explanation In issue #1, of the IDW comic, Derpy is shown in the process of being imprisoned and impersonated by changelings. The dialog from Twilight reads "GASP! They've captured that pony in a chrysalis and taken her place!"

Derpy in a Box explanation In the Gameloft iOS app, Derpy appears as a randomly-appearing character who hides in a cardboard box (a la Solid Snake) and wanders around the screen. If you tap on her box, she comes out of the box, dropping coins and sometimes gems for you to pick up. This overlaps the above, as they only refer to her as "That pony."

Equestria's Best Mother explanation Any picture depicing Derpy and Dinky together, as a happy mother and daughter.

And Derpy on the musical saw. explanation One of the bands in Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks has two background humans on cowbell and triangle... and Derpy sitting center-stage, playing a musical saw.

Derpy shuts the door. explanation An exploitable based on the scene where Derpy shuts the door on the Mane 6 and locks it.

Muffin 1 explanation The image of Derpy faux-flying a plane with a grin is popular, and the plane itself has been dubbed "Muffin 1".

She's a big kitty, really. explanation During a shared dream in "Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?", Derpy Hooves was a giant who only meowed. For some reason.

Derpy's Sacrifice. explanation When Tempest Shadow aims her petrification orb at Twilight, Derpy Hooves and Rainbow Dash have the same idea: Save the Princess. Derpy ends up Taking the Bullet.

Lyra Heartstrings

Sitting Lyra. explanation One of the background ponies, a mint green unicorn with a lyre cutie mark often engaged in some sort of Funny Background Event, was seen in "Dragonshy" sitting like a human being on a bench, leading to many fanworks and jokes about her wanting to be human, mostly centered around her odd sitting patterns but recently branching into wanting human hands as well. Some officially licensed merchandise has since shown her sitting in the same manner—namely, the Lyra OnMy Pocket and FriendshipIs Coming shirts and the papercraftdiorama.

Lyra teaches about humans note A new series of pictures featuring Lyra in a classroom giving wildly inaccurate speeches about humanity.

Multi-purpose, completely non-sexualLyra plushieexplanation Some time ago, a fan made Lyra Heartstrings sex toy was put up for auction online. Soon after, waves of fan art started popping up everywhere depicting various characters demonstrating the use of the plush and its... erm... "cavity" as anythingbutt its intended use such a bag, boxing gloves, mittens, footwear, a mask, a quiver, a sleeping bag, a mail "box" and, most of all, a hand puppet.

Smoothie Lyra Don't Care explanation One of Lyra's Running Gags in the show is her drinking a hay smoothie with her hoof. In the episode "Magic Duel", she appears again with her hay smoothie, seeming completely uninterested in the fate of Ponyville being decided in front of her. This has led to some jokes and fanart about her not giving a flip while drinking a hay smoothie.

Lyra got shafted. explanation The episode "Amending Fences" focuses on Twilight's old friends. Lyra Heartstrings is mentioned as one of these, but aside from the photo at the end doesn't actually appear onscreen.

Lyrabon is best Catdog. explanation During a shared dream in "Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep", Lyra and Bonbon were fused together... and apparently very okay with it.

Doctor Whooves

Doctor Whoof/Whooves. explanation Another background character, making his first prominent appearance in "Winter Wrap-Up", though he cameos in the pilot, a male pony with brown fur and an hourglass cutie mark who kinda looks like the Tenth Doctor.

It also has a followup meme, involving splicing clips from the Doctor Who episode Day Of the Moon into clips of its show. explanation Specifically, the clip where one of the Silence is recorded saying "You should kill us all on sight", and then turned into a post hypnotic suggestion so people can defeat them. This often gets superimposed on scenes of My Little Pony as a creepy spoof of subliminal messages.

While most likely a coincidence, one of the background ponies during the party in "Sweet and Elite" looks suspiciously like the Eleventh Doctor.

A blue pony with a blonde mane from "The Best Night Ever", "Sweet and Elite", "MMMystery on the Friendship Express", and "A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2" looks like the Fifth Doctor.

He's speculated to be the Fifth Doctor, the Eleventh Doctor, or the Seventeenth Master Explanation The Doctor's rival.

"Sweet and Elite" also had Pokey Pierce appear with an hourglass cutie mark while wearing a red tailcoat and an ascot, making him look like the Third Doctor.

There's a blue pegasus with wavy black hair and that cutie mark in "Sonic Rainboom" who appears for a couple of seconds, rather appropriate as it resembles the equally briefly-appearing Eighth Doctor.

In "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000" Doctor Whooves turns the sand timer for the competition. In other words, even the writers acknowledge that he should be in control of time.

And the trading cards have turned it into an Ascended Meme, or at least as far as they can take it without drawing the ire of The BBC. He appears on a card with Mayor Mare and is identified as Time Turner, Ponyville's official timekeeper — whose duties, aside from hourglasses, include maintaining the city's clocks and "all other things timey-wimey" (and yes, they italicized the Memetic Mutation reference to make sure people would notice it).

Krastos the Glue Maker explanation During a game-show/interview on NPR, former US president Bill Clinton stated "Krastos the Glue Maker" should be the lead villain on the show. Krastos has started to appear in fan art showing him interacting with the ponies (as well as jokes showing the characters reacting to bottles of glue), drawn as a human with long arms wearing a hat and bib overalls, a bear with a gluepot and hammer, an armored pony, and other designs.

Ponysonas explanation A term used by the fandom to refer to ponified versions of themselves, depictions ranging from accurate and realistic to fantastical and outlandish designs. The term itself originated from the Furry Fandom term "fursona", which is the depiction of oneself as an anthropomorphic animal, which itself is originated from the word "Persona".

Alicorn OCs / ponysonas are Mary Sues! explanation Due to the depictions of alicorns as special, rare and powerful beings in the show, the fandom has an almost universal aversion towards alicorn OCs and ponysonas. This often manifests in the fandom as fan work mocking the idea of an alicorn OC. The strength of this idea within the fandom's collective psyche has waned a little since the introduction of additional alicorns in the show and further depictions of them in the cartoon showing that they are not as god-like as the fandom thought they were.

Donut Steel explanation A mutation of the phrase "Do Not Steal" - a phrase used in the early days of the fandom when people were using the various pony creator applications to create bizarre pony characters, typically including recoloring of existing pony elements. These would often be shared around but with the phrase "original character - do not steal", despite the fact most would not want to claim that look for themselves. The phrase morphed to become "Donut Steel" to represent any "original" character that lacked significant originality (like recolors of any show pony).

Ponified Show Staffs / Show Staff Ponysonas explanation Besides the fandom at large, the show's staff and crew also have their own ponysonas, either was created for them by the fandom or entirely by themselves.

Fausticorn explanation After Lauren Faustdrew her own ponysona the fandom almost immediately accepted her as a new OC, declaring her to be the third alicorn of Equestria, or even Celestia and Luna's parent. Still there's that matter with reclassifying species though.

Fausticorn is the exception. explanation As the creator of Friendship is Magic, Lauren Faust is considered an exception to the Alicorn taboo (see also: Alicorn OCs are Mary Sues!)

Alicorn Bonnie Zacherle. explanation Bonnie Zacherle created the My Little Pony franchise in the first place, so she should be allowed to represent herself as an alicorn too, if she so chooses.

Sibsy's Wild Fire explanation As memetic as Lauren Faust's ponysona, Wild Fire is a creation of senior storyboard artist Sabrina "Sibsy" Alberghetti. Initially was created as a ponified version of herself since "everyone else was doing one", the fandom named her "Wild Fire" and was accepted by Sibsy as the pony's name. She then began making more artwork of her until eventually the fandom took interest and started incorporating Wild Fire in their fan works. Her depictions range from bored, annoyed, or grumpy to having full-on anger issues, and she commonly displays a passion for racecars similar to the real Sibsy. Wild Fire then made a cameo in the show itself as an extra by Sibsy's request.

Corey Powell's dragon. explanation Nearly all the other staff writers and animators have pony OCs, but Corey as a dragon stands out. This stuck after the episode "Just for Sidekicks" (written by Corey) aired; as it turned out to be a (YMMV) good Spike episode, one drawing postulated that only dragons can write good dragon episodes, and drew Corey as a dragon.

I really like her/his... mane?explanation Often said in response to seeing someone's OC as a reference to Sweetie Belle's reaction to Twilight's less-than-impressive "Smarty Pants" doll.

I really like her/his mane! explanation Another reference, in this case it's to Sweetie Belle's reaction once Twilight brainwashes her into liking the "Smarty Pants" doll. Generally used for cases when someone's OC is actually considered a pretty cool pony design.

Coke Ponyexplanation A ponified bottle of Coca-Cola. She is an Earth pony with red hair, a brown transparent glass for a body, and a bottle of Coke for a cutie mark. Her inside is hollow and instead is filled with Coke. Drawn by various fan artists and made a cameo in Fluffle Puff's game "GO FAST".

Pizza Pony explanation Mozzarella Orgy, one of two food pony OCs created by Sweatshirt, took off in fan-art and all other fan productions, even going so far as to get a GMOD model!

Milky Way, the milkmare from Trottingham explanation Milky Way is a pony with a cream coat, freckles and a two tone blue mane with a curvy style. She also has two unusually large teats in between her hind legs, which always gets some stares from strangers.She has become a bit of a celebrity among the ponynet, having much fanart, both SFW and NSFW too.

Snowdrop explanation The original character from the fan-made animation, Snowdrop, an adorable - but blind - filly. Though most art of her is very cute, it's quite hard not to make jokes around the character in a I'm Going to Hell for This -type of way. For example, having a reaction image of Snowdrop with the phrase "I can't see what you did there", the aforementioned "sliding ponies" meme with Snowdrop getting the trajectory wrong, or a Snowdrop point-of-view image consisting of a black screen.

Wheely Bopper explanation A pegasus mare with wheels for legs who appears to be the ponification of the Duckroll meme. Started out as a strange looping flash animation of a wheeled pony driving along a road that would periodically honk two times before passing a "GO!" signpost by an as of yet unknown artist, she started gaining popularity on Derpibooru and eventually named her as "Wheely Bopper"; receiving a steady flow of artwork depicting her by various artists. Most are coming from an artist only known as "∀", a user from Deviant ART called "SuperRobotRainbowPig" and a Character Blogstarring her.

Button's Mom explanation The mother character from JanAnimations's Button's Adventures. Shown as a Cool Mom that used to play video games, the fandom quickly jumped on (within hours of release) fan art of her along the lines of being a MILF (and then some).

Dim Sum the dragon explanation M.A. Larson found a Chinese restaurant that used a recolored vector of Spike, among other art, of their mascot "Dim Sum" on their menu, and prompted the fandom to work on creating original art of her, which took off as expected.

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